Four would match last year's total, three of whom graduated and one of whom is taking a redshirt at the moment. Four in the top 8 would be an outstanding result for Rutgers.
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Four would match last year's total, three of whom graduated and one of whom is taking a redshirt at the moment. Four in the top 8 would be an outstanding result for Rutgers.
You're going to find out. I've attended many matches there.
Having been there a dozen times or more the RAC is a craphole and there is nowhere close to go between sessions. Will be some unhappy fans I am afraid.
You're absolutely right on all accounts. Been there several times myself, probably not as much as you and matter, but it's definitely not ideal for this event. Not everyone is willing to spend their $$ to watch this tournament from the 300 section in that venue, despite the pollyanna responses. Heck, give me a big screen and a steak, and Flo.
Keep going guys, I'll take my friends, our adventure, spending time with the coaches, wrestlers, and families any day... even though I've been there too, and know what we're in for. What in the world is wrong with feeling this way. Life's too short to be negative, get my drift.
Nothing at all. I just saw it as guys giving their honest personal opinions on this year's BIG10 venue. If I knew I'd be hanging out with the coaches and wrestlers, yeah, I'd definitely reconsider. Lol.
Nothing wrong with feeling that way. If people go in with their eyes open, that's cool. What's not cool is not letting people know what they will be in for if you know the lay of the land. After attending events at the RAC for over 40 years, I have a decent idea. They are terrible seats and I believe the people on the Rutgers board that recognized viewing is not good above about the half-way point of the 200s and recommended not sitting in the 300s were spot on. Those were Rutgers fans saying those things, not me. They clearly don't "hate" Rutgers.
But the reality is Rutgers made a concerted effort to "reward" season ticket holders with large allocations of tickets in the only good seats in the RAC to the exclusion of the fans of *every other* program in the B1G - leaving them with the scraps. I feel really badly for a fan from Iowa or Minnesota, etc. who has to travel, pay for lodging and meals and gets stuck in those nosebleeds (let's leave the fact that the RAC is a terrible firetrap out of it) in the middle of nowhere - without the chance for any other choice except not attending and not really knowing what they will be dealing with. It's shitty treatment of fans of other programs.
I, personally, don't choose to pay Rutgers money to treat me like a second-class citizen but I get that other people don't mind that treatment and are free to make their own choices.
But it is heartening to see the "general public" tickets are selling like day-old roadkill from a card table on the side of the highway - only 2 of the twelve sections in the 300s are sold out over a day later.
I went over to the Rutgers site and thanked them for screwing every other school, let's see I was called an asshole and stupid by one nice person. And now it seems I live in a cow pasture, I guess it's better then the sewer dump called Rutgers. But who am I to judge.
Did you expect a different result with your message, or were you hoping for that result so you could come back here to point out how bad they are?
You have to admit that the really ugly side of Rutgers fandom came out.
But you are right, it was totally predictable. Rutgers fans are like Iowa fans but without the titles for the most part.
Like I said, they are like Iowa fans but without the titles and history to justify even one ounce of smugness. But smug they are, nonetheless. And hostile.
Let's see.
Proud of their school, even though some don't think they should be. Check
Proud of their Athletics teams even, though they haven't been as successful as ours.. Check.
And, defend themselves when someone comes to their board. Check.
Sound like fans to me. But, by all means, we should all run over there and act like a-holes. And then, we can come back over here and brag that we acted like a-holes.
+1,000. Well put. I wanted to respond but couldn't figure how to do so in a "nice" way.
Disrespectful of all other programs. Check.
Wildly hostile at the slightest criticism. Check.
Ready to drop f-bombs and "asshat" and other insulting stuff at the drop of a hat. Check.
Ready to eat their own when someone doesn't follow the groupthink. Check.
Sounds like you are describing yourself. CHECK. Your shtick got old a long time ago. Time to let it go and try and enjoy OUR team instead on constantly running down others. Just saying.
The real question is why does the Big Ten allow this sort of ticket rigging, This isn't a dual meet. I've been to almost 20 Big Ten tournaments and have never gotten bad seats, also every school has always had there own section. As far as going to there board, I wasn't surprised at all with the response. They must be the most thin skined fans in the Big Ten.
All places allow season ticket holders to purchase tickets prior to the public . Olympic Trials tickets were handled that way.The issue is seating capacity.So only allow 50% of season ticket holders to get seats so everyone else can come?If you've a group of 6 that have season tickets it's under 1 account so they only could get 4 tickets.So they opened another round for season ticket holders so every season ticket holder had a chance to attend.Every season ticket holder had the chance to attend Olympic Trials no different.
I agree with that, but that is on the BIG. They should not have allowed Rutgers to host this championship until they had a facility that could handle it.
I do get a kick out of your ridiculous over the top hatred for Rutgers. I really don't understand why you can't just shut the hell up and let the people going enjoy their experience. Some people go, they have fun, they don't have fun, whatever. How does that affect you?
Did someone from Rutgers kick your dog once?
They've ruined the experience of going to Rutgers matches for me. I used to enjoy it until they cranked the hype machine to 11, started using super loud music to create "atmosphere" and started going downhill in their wrestling at the same time. Now it's just loud and annoying with mediocre wrestling (even when they win) with Rex Ryan in charge, telling you four placers at B1Gs is a lot of progress from placing 10 three years earlier.
But more importantly, I live 45 minutes from the RAC and would have liked the opportunity to get a couple decent seats for the B1G tournament.
Here's how Rutgers mishandled the ticket situation as I understand it - they did their initial allocation based on accounts, not ticket season ticket holders. So if you had 12 seats in your season ticket account, you were able to get 4 on the first go-round. If you have two seats, you also got 4. Now I have no idea why they did it so stupidly - it's Rutgers. Then, on the second go-round, you could get 8 more - all season ticket holders. Which is just compounding their initial error. They only have about 3000 season tickets sold. If they just offered B1G tickets on a 1 for 1 basis, they could have made sure their season ticket holders got B1G tickets. But that was too easy for them to manage to do, so they did the convoluted second wave. If you have a single season ticket, you could wind up with 12 B1G tickets. If you have 16 season tickets on one account, you could only get 12 seats at the tournament the way it was handled. It's just rank stupidity.
So with 3000 season ticket seats and a capacity of 6200, they could have ensured at least decent seats for all programs in the B1G quite easily. But in typical Rutgers fashion, they created a shit show instead.
Or they could have had the event at the Prudential Center in Newark, which is a proper venue for the event. There were options that would have not screwed over a lot of people. But those were not chosen.
Or they could do it in a way that didn't set up a lot of profiteering for their season ticket holders.
Thank goodness for Flo.
I'm not a Rutgers fan but seriously, how can you say they started going downhill in their wrestling. They just had their first 2 NCs last year(their first two) with one of them being 4 time AA. You are so anti Rutgers that I just don't see you having much credibility with anything you say about them.
You miss the point though about the B1G tickets. You posted what you wanted to, got it off your chest, now let it go. You don't have to respond to the people going about how bad it is going to be.
The Big10 tournament is being hosted in the most eastern school, next to NYC and in the middle of one of wrestling's hotbed areas. The tournament's popularity has been increasing in recent years to the point it has become imperative to get your tickets early. This should have been one of those big time PR moments that present themselves occasionally that smart leadership takes advantage of to promote their product. This tournament should have been put into a bigger arena, it should have been promoted within NYC national media and on and on.
When Penn State joined the Big10 they were required to build a legitimate arena, the BJC. Why is it Rutgers has only their version of Rec Hall?
When Penn State joined the Big10 they were required to build a legitimate arena, the BJC. Why is it Rutgers has only their version of Rec Hall?
Enough of the spin. Check out the 2015-16 recap where they beat #4 Nebraska and #7 Cornell in dual meets and placed all ten of their wrestlers in the top 8 at B1Gs. You think last year was better because 2 guys (who were the two best wrestlers in NJ HS history) won championships? Okay. Even though they only placed 4 in the top 8 at B1Gs.
https://scarletknights.com/news/2016/4/4/Rutgers_Wrestling_2015_16_Season_Recap.aspx
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That's a question for the Big 10 to answer.As far as it being promoted by NYC media that might happen the event is months away.Most sporting events aren't promoted 5 months out.
I'm seeing a lot of tickets up for sale at ridiculous prices, hopefully those cockroaches get stuck with them and a half empty arena.
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